The Nuclear Option

The Democrats have employed tactics the likes of which Saul Alinsky would be proud: the ends justify the means. Their socialized medicine bill was achieved through the ugly exercise of raw political power and it is steeped in corruption. They employed their grand version of the nuclear option and we are worse off for it.

The GOP must respond but we conservatives cannot lose our dignity in the process. Our nuclear option will preserve the rule of law and the will of the people. Repeal might take years to achieve, but we will achieve it nonetheless. In the interim we should be prepared to earn majorities in both houses of Congress by responding to the will of the people and promising repeal.

Once we do so, our approach should be to completely defund the entire enterprise called ObamaCare. We should be willing to shut down the government to force Obama to repeal this monstrosity. The American people are on our side. Let's use the power of the purse to defund ObamaCare in its infancy. In exchange for appropriations bills funding the government we will force Obama to sign a bill of repeal. As Nicholson said in The Departed, "No tiki, no laundry."

Repeal can be accomplished in 2011 by exercising the power of the purse. The Constitution will be our guide, just as the Framers intended.